Abstract

I will look at the impact of Fanon—as an iconic character in the struggle for independence of Algeria, as an antiracialist and anticolonialist thinker as well—at literature and art practice today. What kind of theoretical knowledge do contemporary artists need? How does the theory affect the production of art and the migration of ideas? Here, I would like to show the close relationship between critical thought, literature and arts. From that perspective, thought, painting, drawing, photo, cinema, video, novel, installation art, represent the pluralistic and multifaceted nature of knowledge. In such a dissemination, I can also see – and conceive – decolonization as a way to reject the given world and look beyond it. It follows that each artwork or opus (art, literature, philosophy) I will talk about here is a form of that reach for an un-alienated humanity described luminously by Fanon. As such, it always contains a force of resistance to the powers that be, albeit a very fragile one.